Opportunities

Studying at the OSCE Academy is rewarding and full of opportunities for professional growth and career development! The following opportunities are offered to exclusively OSCE Academy's current students and alumni only.

Opportunities for Current Students
The OSCE Academy offers fully paid internships to students on a competitive basis, to students who have proven leadership and communications skills, excellent academic results and clear research agenda. Internship takes place during the fall semester in one of the following partner organizations:The OSCE SecretariatNorwegian Institute of International Affairs

All expenses, including air travel, stipend, housing allowance, medical insurance are covered by the Academy and its partner institutions. Only current students are eligible for these internship opportunities. Current students, who would like to conduct their internships in the region, may consult the following Internship Directory. Internship directory contains the list of organizations where students of the MA in Economic Governance and Development have conducted their internships since the program was launched.

Opportunities for Graduating Students and AllumniNUPI FellowshipNUPI (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) Fellowship is available exclusively for the graduates of the OSCE Academy. The aim of the Fellowship is to prepare the two alumni of the Academy for the work in international affairs or study at PhD level by deepening their practical and academic experience. The two alumni will be placed in the Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies (for more information about the department, please click here). The length of the Fellowship is one year. Candidates should be ambitious, hard-working, versatile and easy to get on with. The selected alumni will each receive a stipend of NOK 13,500 (ca. USD 2,200) per month.

Junior Public Officers (JPO) Programme
In support of alumni professional integration in public service, starting from 2010 the Academy runs a Junior Public Officers' (JPO) Programme. JPO Programme provides an opportunity to the OSCE Academy’s graduates from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan to intern at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and other State Agencies of the country of their respective citizenship. The internship period lasts for three months.

This JPO Programme is being implemented in accordance with the Agreements signed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan as of 10 September 2010, the Ministry of the Republic of Afghanistan as of 28 May 2012 (prolonged on 10 January 2018) and the Agency for Investment Promotion and Protection of the Kyrgyz Republic as of 16 June 2017. By 2017 in total 22 alumni have succesfully completed JPO Programme. (Please click here to see the list).